Lynda.com

Lynda.com was an online video learning platform founded in 1995 by Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, offering courses in software, creative, and business skills. LinkedIn acquired Lynda.com in 2015 (~$1.5B) and folded it into LinkedIn Learning; the standalone Lynda.com service has been retired and www.lynda.com now 301-redirects to linkedin.com/learning. The brand exposes no public developer program or API surface of its own. This profile was surfaced as an Accel portfolio company and enriched as a lead; the honest result is a defunct brand with no first-party API.

Lynda.com is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Education, EdTech, and Online Learning.

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2.5/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

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Company Consumer Education EdTech Online Learning Video Courses Acquired LinkedIn

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 2.5/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Education & Research regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: lyndacom
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/lyndacom.png
name: Lynda.com
description: Lynda.com was an online video learning platform founded in 1995 by Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, offering courses
  in software, creative, and business skills. LinkedIn acquired Lynda.com in 2015 (~$1.5B) and folded it into LinkedIn Learning;
  the standalone Lynda.com service has been retired and www.lynda.com now 301-redirects to linkedin.com/learning. The brand
  exposes no public developer program or API surface of its own. This profile was surfaced as an Accel portfolio company and
  enriched as a lead; the honest result is a defunct brand with no first-party API.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lyndacom/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-status: defunct
x-status-reason: acquired by LinkedIn (2015); site retired, redirects to LinkedIn Learning
x-backed-by:
- accel
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Education
- EdTech
- Online Learning
- Video Courses
- Acquired
- LinkedIn
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lyndacom-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: http://www.lynda.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1

Lynda.com

Kin Score

Security Posture 1

Lyndacom Domain Security

Resources

Access & Security 1

Company 1

Source (apis.yml)